Shared Count: A 6 Sided Popularity Metric API

If you are looking to display social networking statistics on your site, Shared Count just showed up with about the simplest tool you could ask for. Given a URL, the Shared Count API will contact the APIs of Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon to retrieve their statistics.

With these results you’re ready to incorporate social stats into your website or application. You’ll be able to show your visitors that your content is popular on six different social networks. Alternatively, you could feed URLs into this API in search of which URLs are popular on the social networks. Perhaps the greatest power here is in being able to determine the popularity other people’s web content. SharedCount certainly could be used to filter URLs, displaying only those that are extremely popular, or those that are as yet undiscovered.